Take-up fabric-roller.



G. A. WiLK1NS FAKE-UP FABRIC ROLLER. APPLICATION FILED NOV- 15. 1916.

Patented Feb. 19, 1918.

Utfiilfltlld GEORGE A. VJILKINS, 0F AMSTERDAM, NEW? YORK.

TAKE-U1? FABRIC-ROLLER.

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Application filed. November 15, 1916. Serial No. 131,449.

and useful Improvements in Take-Up Fabric- Rollers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear and exact descrlption of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to knitting machines and has special reference to the takeup for such machines.

In the type of fabric receiving roller, or

as it is known, the fabric roller, used in machines of this character each end of the roller is provided with a metallic pintle or journal so that the roller may be slidably and rotatably mounted in the legs of the takeu frame. When this roller has received its load of knitted fabric it is customary to remove the roller with the fabric and dislodge the roller from the fabric by dropping one of the journal ends on the floor of the mill. lhis results in frequent injury to the journal ends through bending or breaking and also results in damage to the floor by reason of these small journal ends digging into the floor and destroying it.

One important object of the present invention is to provide a fabric roller of improved construction wherein provision will be made at one end of the roller for cushioning the shock against the floor so that the journal is not injured nor the door destroyed.

In order to accomplish the object of providing a cushioning end it is found essential that the size of the journal be increased and with the usual type of take-up, common at present on knitting machines it is found that this increased size of journal can not be used without special provision on account of the narrowness of the slots in the takeup frame legs.

A second important object of the invention is to provide an improved guide attachment for this large journal which may be readily applied to one of the legs of a takeup frame without requiring a reconstruction or a replacement of the entire frame.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be hereinafter apparent the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated 1n the accompanying drawings, and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, like. char actors of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a knitting machine take-up showing the improved device applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the improved roller.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one of the legs of the take-up frame showing the attachment for the roller journal applied thereto.

Fig. l is a section on the line 4-4.- of Fig. 3, disclosing the relationship of the roller journal with its guide and the legs.

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 2, showing the manner of insertin and holding the elastic plug, used herewith, in position in the journal end.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the attachment for the leg.

In the embodiment of the invention herein illustrated there has been shown a takeup of the usual type indicated in general at A. This take-up is provided with the usual legs 10 forming part of its frame and the driving mechanism indicated 1n general at 11. All of these parts are old and well known so that no further description is deemed necessary.

The present invention consists of a pair of angle bars 12 which are connected together adjacent each end by a C-shaped clamp member 13 so that the two bars 12 may be held in proper spaced relation on one of the legs 10. In order to keep these two bars in their proper adjusted position longitudinally of the leg the clamps 13 are provided with set screws 14: which bear against the legs when screwed up so as to lock the clamp in position.

The fabric roll used in connection herewith consists of a body portion 15 which tapers from end to end and at the larger end of this body portion there is provided the pintle or journal 16. The other end of this body is reduced-as at 17 and bored into this reduced end and into the body is a recess 18 wherein is fitted a plug 19 of elastic material such as leather or solid rubber or the like, the extremity of the plug projecting somewhat beyond the end of the reduced portion 17 as shown.

It is usual to make these rolls of wood and I in order to both prevent the splitting of the roll at this end and also to provide means to prevent its expansion about the plug to permit the latter to slip out there 1s rovided a metallic ferrule or band 20 w ich fits tightly on the reduced end, 17 and has its exterior turned to form a journal for this end of the roll. It will be noted that this reduced end is formed atthe smaller end of the tapered roll. Owing to this construction the collar or ferrule 20 fits between the fianges of the angle bars and is rotatable therebetween and also slidable vertically along these bars in order to permit of the increase in size of the roll of fabric as the device operates. In addition, the spacing between the two angle bars permits the plug 19 to project between the angle bars so that this plug may. be made sufficiently long to take up the shock of dropping without interfering with the operation of the roller either in rotating or in moving longitudinally of the angle bars.

When this device is used and the roll of fabric with its roller removed from the takeup then the roll and roller may be dropped together on the floor, the 'plug end being downward, with the result that the elastic plug 19 will serve as a bumper and will strike the floor without injuring it and owing to the tapering formation of the roller the latter will be readily dislodged from the roll of fabric which will drop on its end on the floor. Furthermore, the shock to the roller being absorbed by the plug 19 no danger exists of bending or breaking the exact form herein shown and described but it is wished to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. A fabric receiving roller for knitting machine take-ups consisting of a body, a re duced end on said body, said end and body having a recess extending inward from the face of said end, an elastic plug fitting in said recess and projecting therefrom, and a ferrule fitted on the end and constituting a journal.

2. A fabric-receiving roller for knitting machine take-ups, havlng a ferrule at one end constituting a journal for that end of the roller and -an' elastic bumper carried by said end of the roller and pro ecting axially of the roller beyond the ferrule.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE A. WILKINS. Witnesses:

L. IRVING THATCIIER, GEORGE BLURCH. 

